Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Main Front. The fedayeen, however, are of less concern to Israel than the standing threat from Egypt. Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Egypt and Syria were stepping up their war efforts, and another round of the war "can happen," perhaps this year. "The Egyptian front is the main one," he added. "It won't start anywhere else...
...against Israel, and he may need to demonstrate his independence in the face of Soviet counsels of caution. On the other hand, there are evanescent but tantalizing indications of counterpressures on Nasser from some army officers and middle-class bureaucrats who are weary of Egypt's bearing the main burden of the Arab cause. These men have begun to argue for making a separate peace with Israel and letting other Arabs carry on as best they...
...main problem may be enforcement. No fewer than nine federal agencies share responsibility for finding and prosecuting violators, who may be fined up to $5,000 and jailed as long as a year. In addition, a victim may sue for twice the amount of any misrepresented finance charge and collect damages up to $1,000, plus court costs. The heaviest enforcement burden will fall on the Federal Trade Commission. FTC of ficials complain that "Z" will force their agency to regulate 1 ,500,000 more businesses without a penny of extra appropriations from Congress...
...Borrowing some ideas from auto manufacturers, he offered many different models and sold them through competing dealers. From the garage in Elkhart, Skyline Corp. has spread to a network of 27 plants. This month Skyline will shift its headquarters to Phoenix, where executive talent is more plentiful, but its main manufacturing plants will stay in Elkhart. That city of 40,000 is the capital of the mobile industry, largely because so many of its residents are hard-working Amish carpenters who shun such secular organizations as labor unions...
...treat his leading characters as if they were dukes and dauphins of some royal court, dwelling upon their power drives at the expense of their unquestioned professional skill, he is at pains not to take explicit sides. Clearly Talese does not care for Daniel. Yet the book's main characters, Reston and Daniel, are not hero and villain but nearly equal protagonists. Daniel is shown as a careerist who cultivates worldly graces and helpful grandees. Against that, the reader can balance Reston's less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that what is good...